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Samira Shackle

Samira Shackle
Samira Shackle is the editor of New Humanist magazine and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read. She frequently reports from Pakistan, where she has family, and spent extensive time there working on the book. She has twice been a media fellow at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference, and in 2019 she was made a MacDowell fellow. This is her debut.


Understanding Pakistan Through the Story of Karachi

Samira Shackle Offers a Portrait of a City
September 3, 2021  By Samira Shackle


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